Craig:
In general, "top posting" is the correct method to reply to a HTML email (it's defined in the RFC)
While you're there ... what's the rationale?
In a discussion group proper usenet quoting should be used. As this mail list is primarily for discussion of issues to do with Linux it should, IMHO, be treated as a usenet discussion group for the purposes of quotation style. Normal Western reading style is from top to bottom. With top posting one has to scroll to the bottome of the message to find out the context and what the person is referring to, then scroll back to the top of the message to read the response. Top posting violates the natural way in which people read postings, and makes it unclear what the posting actually means. With insertion quoting the reader can read the message from top to bottom in a natural way. By inserting the new text at the right point, the context is made very clear and reduces risk of misappropriating text. By deleting material that is not relevant the reader is not wasting time with irrelevant material. I personally appreciate very much good quoting. Top-posting is a complete pain in the arse. There is very little rationale for top-posting. If there is a reason for top-posting (i.e. the whole email message should be retained) then the email message should be included as an rfc822 attachment. That way, the recipient can handle the original post with his newsreader, look at it, reply to it and further forward it. Cheers Michael